Appointments at the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council (27 February to 4 April 2023)

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PRESIDENT'S LIST of 13 February 2023 - appointments approved by the Human Rights Council on 4 April 2023 [ Word | PDF ]

President's letter of 30 January 2023 [ Word | PDF ] transmitting:
Report of the Consultative Group to the President of the Human Rights Council relating to the vacancies of mandate holders to be appointed at the fifty-second session of the Human Rights Council
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Application processes and deadlines

Secretariat note verbale of 18 November 2022 (additional vacancy)

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Note: This is an unforeseen vacancy due to the resignation of the current mandate holder.

For the following mandate only, the application process opened on 18 November 2022 and closed on 3 January 2023 (12 noon Geneva time). APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED FOR:

Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, member from Asia-Pacific States

NOTE: This Working Group vacancy is reserved for nationals of States belonging to the Group of Asia-Pacific States only. Candidates not holding a nationality of an Asia-Pacific State are not eligible for this particular vacancy. Please refer to the list of the United Nations regional groups of Member States at https://www.un.org/dgacm/content/regional-groups.

Secretariat note verbale of 30 November 2022

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Extension of the deadline for applications for five vacancies of mandate holders to be appointed at the 52nd session

For the following mandates only, the application process opened on 18 October and closed on 6 December 2022 (12 noon Geneva time). APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED FOR:

Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development (EMRTD), member from Eastern European States
Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development (EMRTD), member from Western European and other States
Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), member from Asia
Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), member from the Arctic
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation

Secretariat note verbale of 18 October 2022

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For the following mandates only, the application process opened on 18 October and closed on 29 November 2022 (12 noon Geneva time). APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED FOR:

Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development (EMRTD), member from African States
Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development (EMRTD), member from Asia-Pacific States
Special Rapporteur on the right to development
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, member from Latin American and Caribbean States

Candidates eligible for the vacancies in Working Groups and in the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development are only nationals of States belonging to the specific regional groups for which specific vacancies have been advertised. Please refer to the list of the United Nations regional groups of Member States at https://www.un.org/dgacm/content/regional-groups.

For members of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), candidates need to represent one of the indigenous sociocultural regions for which vacancies have been advertised. Please see additional information on EMRIP.

General information about the selection and appointment process

Frequently asked questions

Nomination, Selection and Appointment of Mandate Holders

Mandates and list of candidates

MANDATE	LIST OF ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES
Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development (EMRTD), member from African States Human Rights Council resolution 42/23	Omogboyega ABE (M) Nigeria Abdi Jibril ALI* (M) Ethiopia * Candidate withdrew his application on 27 January 2023. Danwood CHIRWA (M) Malawi Fathi EGAL (F) Somalia Yaovi Mawuli FIAWONOU (M) Togo Sabelo GUMEDZE (M) South Africa APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER Bonny IBHAWOH (M) Nigeria Rhoda Asikia KARIBI-WHYTE (F) Nigeria Aristide NONONSI (M) Benin Germain NTAWUYAMARA (M) Burundi Gervais NZOA (M) Cameroon
Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development (EMRTD), member from Asia-Pacific States Human Rights Council resolution 42/23	Ruijun DAI (F) China Bibhu DASH (M) India Zhuoma GESANG (F) China APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER Mihir KANADE (M) India Xiaohui LIANG (M) China Ricardo A. SUNGA III (M) Philippines Xiuli XU (F) China Kun YAO (F) China
Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development (EMRTD), member from Eastern European States Human Rights Council resolution 42/23	Ramona BIHOLAR (F) Romania Cosmin CORENDEA (M) Romania APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER Klentiana MAHMUTAJ (F) Albania
Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development (EMRTD), member from Western European and other States Human Rights Council resolution 42/23	Ömer BEDIR (M) Türkiye Cristiana CARLETTI (F) Italy Koenraad DE FEYTER (M) Belgium APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER Isabelle DURANT (F) Belgium
Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), member from Asia Human Rights Council resolution 33/25	Brijlal CHAUDHARI (M) Nepal APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER Binota Moy DHAMAI (M) Bangladesh V N JHA (M) India Zhongcai MA (M) China Yaguang WANG (F) China
Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), member from the Arctic Human Rights Council resolution 33/25	Andrey AGEYEV (M) Russian Federation Grigory DYUKAREV (M) Russian Federation APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER Dalee SAMBO DOROUGH (F) United States of America
Special Rapporteur on the right to development Human Rights Council resolution 51/7	Omogboyega ABE (M) Nigeria Teresa ANJINHO (F) Portugal Musavengana Winston Theodore CHIBWANA (M) Zimbabwe Bibhu DASH (M) India APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER Surya DEVA (M) India Anthony Chima DIALA (M) Nigeria Rosa FREEDMAN (F) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Kin Chung Henry HO (M) China Mihir KANADE (M) India Aristide NONONSI (M) Benin Gervais NZOA (M) Cameroon Daniela REYES TORRES (F) Mexico Viyan SIDO* (F) Germany At the candidate’s request, the Word application form has been removed from the website Ricardo A. SUNGA III* (M) Philippines
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation Human Rights Council resolution 51/25	Sergii BERVENO (M) Ukraine François CROQUETTE (M) France Ognan DOGO (M) Togo Kanstantsin DZEHTSIAROU (M) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Miklós HARASZTI (M) Hungary Krassimir KANEV (M) Bulgaria APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER Mariana KATZAROVA (F) Bulgaria Ryszard KOMENDA (M) Poland Philip LEACH (M) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Marie MENDRAS (F) France
Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, member from Asia-Pacific States Human Rights Council resolution 45/24	John Phillip BINONDO (M) Philippines APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER Bina D'COSTA (F) Bangladesh Vidya Nath JHA (M) India Chen LIU (F) China Yanhua LUO (F) China Mahmoud MASAELI (M) Islamic Republic of Iran Aswini Kumar PATI (M) India Sriprapha PETCHARAMESREE (F) Thailand Nid SATJIPANON (M) Thailand Ranjit SINGH (M) India Junyong XIAO (M) China
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, member from Latin American and Caribbean States Human Rights Council resolution 45/3	Miriam COHEN (F) Brazil APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER Ana Lorena DELGADILLO PEREZ (F) Mexico Maria Clara GALVIS-PATIÑO (F) Colombia Juan Carlos GUTIÉRREZ CONTRERAS (M) Mexico Carlos Mauricio LÓPEZ CÁRDENAS (M) Colombia Mariana MOTA (F) Uruguay Fabián RAIMONDO (M) Argentina

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Should the appointee to any of the mandates be a person with a disability, the United Nations would be obliged to ensure reasonable accommodation for the mandate holder in the implementation of his/her mandate. This may include provisions for the mandate holder to be accompanied during official travels by a personal assistant, and/or for additional conference services (such as sign language interpretation) in respect of meetings in which the mandate holder participates.